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These photos are taken from a Japanese Nepenthes site (S-Yamada) on which they are simply listed as "Nepenthes sp". I wonder if anyone could help identify them. I've got a few ideas of my own, but would first like to hear what you guys think.

Agree with Pyro on that last pic. It looks very similar to our large ventricosa x truncata, which we got from a good friend. This plant may be from tc.
The sumatran species is a dead ringer for a plant we got from Bruce Bednar many years ago. Bruce simply called in sumatran species, because it had been collected near Sibolga. We think its a natural hybrid, possibly with gracilis. The pitchers are too big to be pure gracilis, so it may be part reinwardtiana??

is not an alata...N. alata doesn't grow in Sumatra. Check out a pic of our plant.
To make a very long story shorter, this plant was given to us a N.eustachya... but it is clearly not. The vine has a gracilis growth habit, but the traps aren't right for gracilis. We think it's gracilis x reinwardtiana or something similar.
A lot of the unknown plants in those pics could be natural or man made hyrbids, some of the smaller plants are still too immature to make an id.

But also resembles the natural hybrid of N. truncata x petiolata (mindanaoensis) too!

This isn't meant to be implied as a result of the two crossing. Its merely to state that at one time petiolata was a synonym of mindanaoensis, so whichever the correct plant was used, its in parenthesis as a synonymous name and doesn't imply that petiolata is the same specis as mindanaoensis. This is why the parenthesed name comes right after another species epithet.

Michael

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